Nick Stokes

Rise, then Descend (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A modern dispossessed man climbs a sacred mound that an ancient native civilization builds. They descend. Rise, then Descend, a short story, was first published in Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 18 #1.

From Rise, then Descend:
"Did the ancients use walking sticks when climbing the mound? He's not sure what kind of man needs a walking stick to walk. You just move your feet one front of the other. An old man might need a walking stick. But he is not old. He is old, compared to how old people used to get. Maybe are designed to get. He wishes he were old.
Doctor said to use the hiking poles. That they'd give him a more thorough workout. Okay. That they'd save his knees on the way down that blessed mound however many times a day if that's the way he had to do it. Okay. He didn't need to pay for knee trouble too. That they'd ensure he doesn't fall. He doesn't believe in insurance and what kind of man falls climbing a hill? But okay. He does the hiking poles. Pansy, but that doesn't stop him.
His tremors don't stop him.
Thirty-five some-odd degree rain blowing horizontal in his face doesn't stop him. Climbing in a monumental refrigerator he built back when he built refrigerators doesn't stop him. Won't see nobody up here today, which the opposite of stops him. Can't see nothing from the top. Doesn't stop him."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nick Stokes
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311036414
• Artikelnr.: 48617755

Autorenporträt

Nick Stokes is the author of the novel AFFAIR, first serialized by The Seattle Star, the (anti)-choose-your-own-adventure YOU CHOOSE, and the attempt to consciousness ARTIFACT COLLECTIVE. His short prose and fictions and nothings have been published by Bumf, Paper Darts, Crab Orchard Review, Mixer, Waccamaw, Prick of the Spindle, Knock, and others. His plays have been seen in various venues: DUELS in a built garden at 12th Ave Arts in Seattle and On the Boards NWNW Fest, WAS IS WILL BE MUSIC in a Seattle hotel room, and THE SOUND WE MAKE in Tacoma's Old City Hall. DUELS, produced in 2016 by amador/stokes, received reviews that said such words as "an absorbing work of agricultural absurdity" and "a vibrant, surreal production" and "DUELS presents a cornucopia of senses, languages, themes, and genres ... reminds us what it means to be human" and "Come the f*** on with this s***." He once-upon-a-time packed mules in Montana, lives in Tacoma, and is virtually sometimes at nickstokes.net.